Chris Pratt has been spotted packing on the PDA with a new flame

When the news broke that Chris Pratt and Anna Faris were separating after eight years, the world collectively sobbed - love is dead.

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The couple, who met in 2007 while filming the romantic comedy Take Me Home Tonight, said attempts to save their relationship had failed.

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Funny, charismatic and eyes that see into our soul - it's no secret that Chris Pratt is our long-term Hollywood crush and as the months have passed, we've been wondering when Chris would make his first foray back into the dating game.

After being linked to Olivia Munn for the last two months, the rumour mill has been going into overdrive amidst speculation that the Jurassic World star has been dating author, Katherine Schwarzenegger. Now we finally have confirmation that Chris is in a new relationship, after the couple took their relationship public with a spot of PDA.

This weekend, the pair were seen going to Church together with Chris's son, Jack, from his marriage to Anna Faris, before grabbing a frozen yoghurt together. But cameras caught Chris and Katherine enjoying more than a spot of lunch, sharing a kiss that has seemingly confirmed the relationship rumours.

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But who is Katherine Schwarzenegger? While you might have read her books, you'll almost certainly recognise Katherine as the step-daughter of none other than Hollywood royalty and former Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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Speaking about his split with Anna at the time, Chris explained: "We tried hard for a long time, and we're really disappointed," Pratt wrote in a post on Facebook.

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"And we're finding a way to navigate this while still remaining friends and still being kind to one another. It's not ideal, but yeah, I think both of us are actually probably doing better."

It's the first time the actor has spoken so openly about the couple's split.

Anna, meanwhile, spoke to Dax Shepherd on his Armchair Expert podcast, about how it felt to see everyone's comments online.

“Chris and I did talk about [it]. We got, like on the Twitter feed, yes like ‘Love is dead’ and ‘relationship goals'."

“I think what we were also guilty of — although we had an unbelievable marriage and we have a great friendship now, we love our son to death, and I’m really proud of that because I’m not sure I did that well the first time [I was married]. But I do think we obviously cultivated something, and it was rewarding for a while. It was like ‘Oh, people seem to think we got all this shit all right.’”

When asked whether she felt pressured about 'letting down' their fans, she explained: "I don’t know if embarrassment is quite the right word. Something akin to that. I had a little bit of a childish feeling of ‘Oh come on, fucking grow up!’ Like, a little anger. But that’s not fair either because I cultivated it though,"

“We intentionally cultivated this idea of like, ‘Look at this beautiful family.’ There were so many moments that were like that but of course just like anything on social media, you don’t post like, ‘Where the fuck is the toilet paper?!’ or whatever. I think it’s a very hard forum to be genuine, and I think it does a disservice to people to not be."

She also spoke about marriage in general and its role in society.

She said: "I need to figure out what the purpose is. Is it safety for your children? Is it convention? Is it so other people respect your relationship more? For me, I’m just not quite sure where it fits, especially when it feels so easy to get married, and then there’s like the untangling in terms of the state getting involved.”

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“There is the importance of how other people then treat you as a married man as opposed to a man with a girlfriend. I do think it is important how other people respect a relationship—I’m not saying it’s a good reason, but it is a small benefit of having that label of being married.”

Anna's now dating cinematographer Michael Barrett, but it seems that marriage may not be on the cards, given her latest revelation. Either way, Anna and Chris are still friends and their little boy will have a life full of love.

Now scroll down to see all of Chris Pratt's hottest pictures to date...

We've got a little bit of a thing for Chris Pratt, so we've compiled a gallery of his hottest pics. Let us take you on this journey.

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Here's Chris Pratt in The Magnificent Seven, being a really smouldering sexy cowboy.

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Here he is looking all pleased with himself, sans the beard. What do you reckon, beard or no beard?